Nicaraguan Emerging and Endemic Diseases (NEED) Training Program

尼加拉瓜新发和地方病 (NEED) 培训计划

• 批准号: 10361473
• 负责人: Sylvia Irene Becker-Dreps
• 金额: $ 23.69万
• 依托单位: UNIV OF NORTH CAROLINA CHAPEL HILL
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 财政年份: 2018
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2018-05-10 至 2025-02-28
• 项目状态: 未结题
• 来源: https://reporter.nih.gov/project-details/10361473
• 关键词: Accreditation; Address; Affect; Bilateral; Biomedical Research; Calicivirus; Caribbean region; Chikungunya virus; Childhood; Dengue; Diarrhea; Disease Outbreaks; Doctor of Philosophy; Endemic Diseases; Enrollment; Ensure; Faculty; Fostering; Growth; Infectious Disease Epidemiology; Influenza; Institution; Interdisciplinary Study; Latin America; Mentors; Microbiology; Morbidity - disease rate; Nicaragua; Nicaraguan; North Carolina; Pattern; Prevalence; Public Health; Research; Research Personnel; Research Project Grants; Research Training; Respiratory Disease; Respiratory syncytial virus; Risk; Science; Scientist; Serotyping; Training; Training Programs; Universities; Viral Epidemiology; Virus; Virus Diseases; Yellow fever virus; Zika Virus; biomedical scientist; burden of illness; cohort; design; evidence base; faculty research; innovation; laboratory experience; low and middle-income countries; mortality; pathogen; pathogenic virus; population health; pre-doctoral; programs; skill acquisition; skills; success

Contact PD/PI: Becker-Dreps, Sylvia Abstract t The growing, global impact of emerging and endemic viral diseases is a critical public health issue. The explosive spread of zika virus throughout Latin America and the Caribbean in 2015 followed only two years after a similar pattern of spread of chikungunya virus. In 2017, yellow fever virus from Amazon regions emerged in Rio de Janeiro, underscoring the risk of a major urban outbreak. In addition to these emerging and reemerging viruses, endemic viruses continue to cause a high burden of disease. Caliciviruses are now the leading causes of childhood diarrhea in Nicaragua, influenza and respiratory syncytial virus continue to cause a high burden of respiratory disease, and all four dengue serotypes are now endemic. We have designed a program to train a cadre of innovative scientists in Nicaragua to confront these emerging and endemic pathogens of high priority to the LMIC institution. The rationale for this program is to protect the public health of populations by increasing the numbers and expertise of local scientists to 1) describe the epidemiology of these viral pathogens, 2) understand their impact on morbidity and mortality, and 3) identify evidence-based approaches to reduce their prevalence and burden of disease. The Nicaraguan Emerging and Endemic Diseases (NEED) Training Program takes advantage of the convergence of a longstanding relationship between Universidad Nacional Autónoma de Nicaragua, León (UNAN-León) and the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill (UNC), existing collaborative research for trainee projects, and strong bilateral institutional support. The program’s objectives include: 1) Provide long-term, pre-doctoral training in infectious disease epidemiology at UNC to two young investigators from UNAN-León. These graduates will contribute to the core research faculty at UNAN-León to address pressing local research agendas; 2) Create a sustainable supply of well-trained biomedical scientists in the region by establishing an accredited PhD program in Biomedical Sciences at UNAN- León; we will enroll five pre-doctoral candidates in the initial cohort. This program builds upon a successful Master’s program of Microbiology in place at UNAN-León and fills a huge need in Nicaragua for rigorous PhD- level biomedical research training. We further support five of these pre-doctoral trainees for one-month long laboratory trainings at UNC. 3) Foster professional growth and research skills development among 140 trainees of all levels, including local faculty, to ensure academic and research success. Robust short-term trainings in professional and research skills needed to become an independent investigator and successful academician are provided to both trainees and local faculty to ensure that the program’s impacts extend more broadly. This program will result in a multidisciplinary research team at UNAN-Leon to confront the emerging and endemic viral diseases that affect public health both regionally and globally. Our approach is made feasible by leveraging an existing successful Master’s program at UNAN-León and by providing trainees the opportunity to partner with mentors at both UNC and UNAN-León on a growing array of collaborative research projects.

联系PD/PI: Becker-Dreps， Sylvia